Feminist Avant-Garde

Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

Gabriele Schor

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English

Prestel
02 April 2024

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Feminism & feminist theory

"Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan ""The personal is political"", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women - mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasise the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists - Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others - as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

AUTHOR: Gabriele Schor is Director of the Verbund Collection in Vienna, Austria. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has published many works, including monographs of artists Renate Bertlmann, Birgit Jurgenssen, Louise Lawler and Francesca Woodman as well as the catalogue raisonne of Cindy Sherman's early works.

200 colour and 500 illustrations"

By: Gabriele Schor
Imprint: Prestel
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Expanded edition of original title.
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 241mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9783791359717
ISBN 10: 3791359711
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 02 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

GABRIELE SCHOR is Director of the SAMMLUNG VERBUND in Vienna, Austria. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has published many works, including monographs of artists Birgit Jurgenssen and Francesca Woodman as well as the catalogue raisonné of Cindy Sherman's early works.